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foomench:

I bought a solid state drive for a client HTPC on eBay - 1GB for $80. That might be an option for some people. It wouldn't work for an arcade cabinet for me though - for various reasons I want XP, and I don't think that will fit. Another similar option is a Compact Flash to IDE adapter. CF is getting cheaper and capacities are going up.
-foomench

Witchboard:

We had a member who was working on a cabinet with this option.  Here's the thread.

PixelCloud:

There are ram solid state drives which are VERY expensive but super fast..

ithey are basically a circut board with a load of ram sticks in them ...


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AlanS17:

I've heard that flash memory has only a limited amount a read/write cycles before they go byebye. The only practical way to use them (at least for an indefinite amount of time) would be to make a RAM drive at start-up and then to load the contents of the flash memory into RAM every time you start the computer. They make a version of Win98 that fits on like 100MB, and that seems to be a popular option used in conjunction with flash drives. Otherwise you may wake up one day to an "Incredible Disposable Arcade Machine".

foomench:

There are a number of options of getting around the read/write cycles thing. You can make your boot partition read-only. The real issue is the swap space which involves lots of reading and writing. I've heard of some people setting that up on a network drive. I think most of these are pretty easy to do with Linux, but may be more difficult with Windows.
-foomench


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